February 15, 2025

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Fasting

No fast

The week after the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee is fast-free, including Wednesday and Friday.

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

Readings of the day

• Epistle

  2 Timothy 3:1–9

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  ¹But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.

  ²For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

  ³without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

  ⁴traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

  ⁵holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

  ⁶For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

  ⁷always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  ⁸Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

  ⁹But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

• Gospel

  Luke 20:46–21:4

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  ⁴⁶“Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

  ⁴⁷who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

  ¹He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.

  ²He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.

  ³He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

  ⁴for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed